Mildura is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of

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and sits within the Northern Victoria electorate. It is a 37,529 km² rural electorate in the far-north-west of the state, encompassing the regional towns of Hopetoun, Mildura,

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, Red Cliffs and

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. It is currently represented by independent

Ali Cupper Alison Sarah Cupper (born 20 January 1980) is an Australian politician. She was an Independent member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 2018 until 2022, representing the seat of Mildura and was a previous Labor candidate. Political ca ...

. Mildura was first proclaimed in 1927 and was, for most of its history, a safe seat for the rural conservative Country Party, excluding two terms of

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control from 1945 to 1947 and 1952–1955. In 1988, however, it became one of a number of rural seats to fall to the

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, with journalist

Craig Bildstien Craig Stephen Bildstien (born 20 November 1957) in an Australian journalist and former politician, who was a Liberal Party member for the Victorian Legislative Assembly seat of Mildura from 1988 to 1996. Born in Mildura, he attended Merbein Hig ...

winning the seat on Labor preferences. Bildstien held the seat for eight years before a surprise loss in 1996 to conservative independent

Russell Savage Russell Irwin Savage (born 27 January 1948) is an Australian politician, who was the independent member for the Victorian Legislative Assembly seat of Mildura from 1996 until 2006. Prior to entering politics, he was a long-serving police off ...

. Savage was twice re-elected with large margins, but was a widely unexpected casualty of the 2006 election, losing his seat to the National Party's Peter Crisp in a landslide. Crisp retained the seat in 2010 and 2014, only to be swept out in a shock defeat by Cupper, only the fourth time that the seat has not been held by a conservative party. Towns within the district include: Birchip, Boundary Bend, Hopetoun, Irymple, Manangatang, Merbein, Mildura, Murrayville, Ouyen, Patchewollock, Piangil, Red Cliffs, Robinvale, Sea Lake, Walpeup, Woomelang and Wycheproof.

Members for Mildura

Election results

References

District profile from the Victorian Electoral Commission
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